Space Avenger – Empire of Nexx

Top down spaceship shooter, enemies look cool and come in waves. Lots of upgrades, but definitely will take a good grindy while to get - repeat missions for more currency and shump your way to Victory https://youtu.be/mOnXyOT97cM

you have to grind a little, but fun :)

Got as far as the language select screen, where only left & right keys worked - apparently this is a keyboard/controller-only game and well... you need the controller to actually select the language to start with. since i rely on a keyboard/mouse configuration with optional driving wheel (for racing games of course), this makes the game an unplayable one for me... ps, the 0.2 hrs recorded activity was just basically me being stuck at the unresponsive language select screen, so don't assume i had any play time with the game!

Nice and addictive casual shooter. I really enjoyed upgrading my ship and playing with various weapon combinations. Collecting all upgrades and beating stages on the highest difficulty is pleasantly challenging and a simple resource system via destroying meteors adds a cool strategy element in later stages.

The translation is bad, but I could overlook that if the gameplay were any good. Unfortunately, the keyboard control scheme is awful and the game doesn't support key remapping. I assume this game was a minimal-effort port of the Switch version, with no real effort to make it playable via keyboard. Movement controls are bound to the arrow keys, so you're out of luck if you happen to prefer WASD. On top of that, secondary controls are mapped to ESDF instead of WASD, so if your fingers naturally fall to WASD while gaming, you'll continually feel like your fingers are in the wrong place.

I love this game! at first i didnt know if i would like it but i did get a steam key so i decided to check it out. Worth it!